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I ditched the edges on the nacelle struts - they made 'big', chunky boxes which were totally out of proportion at this scale. Instead I just stuck the opposite faces to each other for a double thickness. That just leaves the nacelles to be built and attached:-

@kirby stewart Thank-you very much :D The undersides of all three ships fitted really well! I really expected one of them to be a total mess, but the gap was reduced when it was attached. The next stage was adding the contouring sections and bridge to the upper half of the hull:- I used the...

With the contouring parts attached, it was time to cut the pieces for the underside of the saucer and the deflector dish mount:- I'll need to invent a new word for this - "fiddly" doesn't come close! I used very thin paper strips to connect the rear curves then curled everything round a...

@spaceagent-9 @Rhaven Blaack @Revell-Fan @kirby stewart Thank-you all very, very much :shamefullyembarrased: I joined all the central support parts then cut the rims and some contouring pieces:- Since the rim pieces are under 1mm thick I'm having to use the moistened point of a toothpick to...

@spaceagent-9 Jings! :shamefullyembarrased: I'd be honoured to supply pics :D. I uploaded one to my flickr page, but it looks like it can't be downloaded! :facepalm: You could mibbe try my facebook album:- https://www.facebook.com/linweseregon/photos If you go to full screen mode you'll get the...

Looking great so far :D

@spaceagent-9 It's an easy enough build, just a wee bit monotonous when you're cutting the same piece six times ;) @Rhaven Blaack Thanks Rhaven :happy:. I might even get it finished tomorrow :). @coffeeramblings Thank-you very much :D. Aye, like I said to Jim, it is kinda monotonous at some...

The main body of the inner ring was attached and I cut the parts for the weapons sails x3:-

With the rim and it's protrusions attached, I cut the parts for the inside and bottom faces of the inner ring:- It's hard to believe that I've already been at this for over a week! :jawdrop::)

Thanks guys :happy: - the bit of extra work is well worth it. I'm now onto the inner ring, starting with the top:- Although there are wee differences between Ninjatoes' design and the studio model I'm able to remain quite faithful to the original DS9 by being pedantic with my layers. OCD...

The lower pylons are in place and the upper pylons are waiting to join them:- It's starting to be recognisable as DS9 (Terok Nor) now.

@spaceagent-9 Yep, ebay over here has fluorescent fishing line (green from Hong Kong and orange from Ireland) which looks very interesting. No rods, but they'd be a bit too thick for this scale methinks... Thanks for letting me know :happy: @Revell-Fan That would've been a great idea! The...

Superb! :D

I connected the sections of the outer cargo ring and cut the parts for the runabout docking bays:- then, once the runabout docking bay arms were built, I joined everything together to form the outer ring. When this was done I cut the parts for the pylon bases:- The parts for the pylon bases...

Keeping up with the slow, steady approach I built the lower halves of the ring and cut the pieces for it's inner face:-

@spaceagent-9 Almost as humungous as your uploading of all your designs ;). I was PMed about the Jem'Hadar cruiser so I don't know if it's public or not :(. Marko (D-WHALE) might be able to tell you? :) @kirby stewart Thank-you very much :) I've caught up with all the thirds of the ring...

@Revell-Fan Not if I have anything to say about it! ;) I'm starting with the model which is conspicuous by it's absence in my list: DS9. I'm using Ninjatoes' design and since the scale was given as 1:5000 I shrunk it to 63%. Unfortunately this gave me a space station 4" in diameter and I had to...

Now that the preliminaries are out of the way, I can begin properly. "Micro" is in inverted commas because this diorama, although composed of micro ships, is going to be around 3' x 4'. The list of ships I'm building is as follows:- FEDERATION:- Akira x3 Centaur - USS Centaur NCC 42043 Defiant -...

@kirby stewart Many thanks for that :D. @zathros Many, many thanks for the offer :D. I now have design templates for everything except the USS Jupp. It looks like a fairly straightforward kitbash though. If I run into any problems I know where to come - thanks again :D

@zathros I'll be starting to build as soon as I finish my calculations... ...and restock on ink! lol I'm quite amazed at the number of species yet to be tackled from DS9, although the Breen and Jem'Hadar look like total nightmares to try and build templates for! There are still the Bajorans...